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Farideh and Ali Azadi Foundation Inc at a glance

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Farideh and Ali Azadi Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$549k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$450k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0180% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$2.7MEducation$116kInternational$37kRecreation & Sports$26kHealth$15kHuman Services$13kCivil Rights$8kPhilanthropy$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
  • $250k+1 grant · $450k
$10,250
Median grant
4
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER$450,000
WABE$35,000
COMMUNITY FUND DULUTH$20,655
PIEDMONT PARK CONSERVANCY$13,191
ALLIANCE THEATER$10,751
Individual grant recipient$10,250
RAINN$2,500
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS$2,500
ST MARY'S HOSPITAL$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,060
PERSIAN CULTURAL CENTER OF ATLANTA$1,000
Individual grant recipient$530
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 1% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS: $3k → 11%DREXEL UNIVERSITY: $5k → 22%PERSIAN CULTURAL CENTER OF ATLANTA: $132k → 9%CENTER FOR CIVIL & HUMAN RIGHTS: $5k → 13%ST MARY'S HOSPITAL: $5k → 27%BOY SCOUTS ATLANTA: $26k → 8%PERSIAN CULTURAL CENTER OF ATLANTA: $12k → 9%CHILDRENS HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA: $5k → 14%BOY SCOUTS ATLANTA: $25k → 8%PERSIAN CULTURAL CENTER OF ATLANTA: $9k → 9%BOY SCOUTS ATLANTA: $25k → 8%PERSIAN CULTURAL CENTER OF ATLANTA: $5k → 9%PIEDMONT PARK CONSERVANCY: $13k → 13%NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: $25k → 14%BOY SCOUTS ATLANTA: $20k → 8%PIEDMONT PARK CONSERVANCY: $10k → 13%BOY SCOUTS ATLANTA: $20k → 8%PIEDMONT PARK CONSERVANCY: $5k → 13%BOY SCOUTS ATLANTA: $10k → 8%PIEDMONT PARK CONSERVANCY: $5k → 13%PIEDMONT PARK CONSERVANCY: $5k → 13%THE WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER: $450k → 13%THE WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER: $385k → 13%THE WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER: $353k → 13%THE WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER: $353k → 13%THE WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER: $350k → 13%THE WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER: $350k → 13%THE WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER: $350k → 13%THE WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER: $315k → 13%THE WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER: $34k → 13%ALLIANCE THEATER: $11k → 13%ATLANTA SYMPHONY: $10k → 13%ATLANTA SYMPHONY: $10k → 13%ATLANTA SYMPHONY: $10k → 13%ALLIANCE THEATRE: $5k → 13%WOODWARD ACADEMY: $25k → 13%WOODWARD ACADEMY: $5k → 13%WABE: $80k → 13%WABE: $35k → 13%ANDREW YOUNG FOUNDATION: $12k → 13%GEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $10k → 13%GEORGIA PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $6k → 13%ANDREW YOUNG FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%COMMUNITY FUND DULUTH: $21k → 13%CARE: $10k → 13%JEFFREY FASHION CARES: $10k → 13%CARE: $10k → 13%THE ATLANTA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 15 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
17

Total granted

$3.5M
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+91%

Still filing today

53%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyInternationalHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • RW
    ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.9M · revenue +51%
  • PP
    Piedmont Park Conservancy Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +140%
  • WA
    WOODWARD ACADEMY INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +9%
  • JF
    JEFFREY FASHION CARES
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • TA
    THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +177%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
2
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
5
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…

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6
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Inc

To make kids better today and healthier tomorrow.

Health
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
8
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
9
Piedmont Hospital Inc

To provide healthcare marked by compassion and sustainable excellence in a progressive environment, guided by physicians, delivered by exceptional professionals, and inspired by the communities we serve.

Health
10
International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution Inc

Cprs mission is to harness the insights and experiences of its members to prevent and resolve business disputes.we do this by:(see schedule o)- convening a community of members to generate innovative and best practice resources to prevent…

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11
Associated Universities Inc

Associated universities inc (aui) collaborates with the scientific community and research sponsors to plan, build, and operate cutting-edge facilities. we cultivate excellence, deliver value, enhance education, and engage the public.

Science & Tech
12
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Atlanta Community Food Bank Inc; the most unlike its peers is Drexel University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
14/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $2,939,970 · Arts & CultureROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC+2 more: $30,000 · Arts & CulturePERSIAN CULTURAL CENTER OF ATLANTA: $159,600 · OtherPERSIAN CULTURAL …Individual grant recipient: $125,600 · OtherIndividual grant …WABE: $115,000 · OtherWABEPiedmont Park Conservancy Inc: $39,541 · OtherPiedmont Park Con…Individual grant recipient: $30,250 · OtherIndividual grant …COMMUNITY FUND DULUTH: $20,655 · Other+17 more: $66,960 · Other+17 moreWOODWARD ACADEMY INC: $30,000 · EducationDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationANDREW J YOUNG FOUNDATION INC: $17,392 · PhilanthropyTHE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $20,000 · InternationalST MARY'S HOSPITAL INC: $7,000 · HealthRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): $5,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 · HealthHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $100 · Food & Nutrition
Arts & Culture$2,969,970Other$557,606Education$35,000Philanthropy$22,892International$20,000Health$12,500Housing & Shelter$5,000Food & Nutrition$100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC: $2,939,970 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetPiedmont Park Conservancy Inc: $39,541 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWOODWARD ACADEMY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANDREW J YOUNG FOUNDATION INC: $17,392 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetST MARY'S HOSPITAL INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds ROBERT W WOODRUFF ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Piedmont Park Conservancy Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOODWARD ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds ANDREW J YOUNG FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) ↗
  • Who funds THE ATLANTA WOMENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Coca-Cola Foundat…THDF II Inc DBA The H…The Arthur M Blank Fa…Georgia Power Foundat…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Coca-Cola Foundation IncGA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc · THDF II Inc DBA The Home Depot Foundation & Homer Fund · The Arthur M Blank Family Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Farideh and Ali Azadi Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Farideh and Ali Azadi Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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